Hollywood tale rekindles love affair with Classics

The success of Warner Bros' epic film, Troy, has catapulted into the stratosphere sales of an interactive, funcky, eBook tie-in.

(PRWEB) May 26, 2004 -- Three and a half thousand years ago the worlds largest fleet took the worlds largest army against the worlds best fortified city. It was a defining moment in Greek pre-history. It marked the point past which gods stopped meddling in the affairs of man, history became recorded through writing and the identity of the Greek hero was forged.

Hollywoods release of the Troy blockbuster has been instrumental in getting entire generations back to the classics though reading about the Trojan War and the causes that led up to it, in the 21st century, takes an entirely different spin.

Troy, the greatest love story ever told is a fully interactive eBook that makes use of weblinks, pop-up notes and hyperlinks to create a reading experience thats a seamless blend of web-surfing and reading a book.

Weve been planning to do a film tie-in for some time now," explains Projects Editor, David Amerland, but we wanted to go beyond the obvious explanations about the story behind the film. The release of Troy by Warner Bros., provided us with the perfect opportunity."

Jack Stevens pop-vox approach to the Trojan War in Troy the greatest love story ever told makes full use of pop-up notes, hyperlinks and weblinks to bring a tale that has enthralled the world to life in a multi-layered way.

The greatest advantage of using Troy as an ebook is that it combines the best of the web and paper reading experience," says David who was the mastermind behind the project. With a subject like the Trojan War and Troy you can either take the academic approach in which case the reading experience can become tedious and a little like reading Cliff Notes or you can run the risk of skimming the surface so lightly that you dont get anywhere at all. When Jack Stevens came to us with his idea of a book that falls in between we took it up as a challenge."    

Troy works by going as deep or lightly as the reader wishes. It is in essence an introduction in the subject that will allow you to understand the period, learn about the major players and find out what it is all about in hours rather than days or months.

The instant learning is a big attraction of putting ebooks together in this way," explains David Amerland, it allows the reader to go at their own pace. They can go as deep as they wish without slowing down the gripping narrative that unfolds."

With hundreds of downloads in the first day of sale Cool Publications fully expect Troy to become one of their best-sellers. It is always difficult to gauge the response," says David Amerland, at the end of the day you get involved in a project that excites you and then hope that the readers share that same degree of excitement when they read it."

Notes to Editors:
Troy, ISBN: 1 84481 067 4, is available as an enhanced, intelligent, digital book from Cool Publications Ltd (www.coolpublications.com) at 4.50.

Troy, ISBN: 1 84481 068 2, 12.00 is the interactive CD version of the book which also includes the full texts of Homers Iliad and The Odyssey along with 60MB of extra material, notes, website links, screensavers and related texts. The CD version is attractively packaged in a DVD box and can be ordered online from www.coolpublications.com.

For further details, pictures and articles please contact David Amerland on 0161 439 7525, or Mob 07929878178, or email: david.a@coolpublications.com